strings Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 19, 2017 CategoriesFine-tuningPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Brian Greene, Columbia University, Ethan Siegel, Fermilab, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, nature, Peter Higgs, Peter Woit, Philip Ball, string landscape, string theory, supersymmetry, Theory of Everything Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence Denyse O’Leary July 19, 2017 Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences 6 String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.” Read More ›
chichen-itza-osservatorio-stockpack-adobe-stock-372957455-stockpack-adobestock Type post Date November 4, 2016 CategoriesAstronomyCosmologyCultural AnthropologyIntelligent Design Tagged , __nedited, Anthropic Principle, black holes, closed-mindedness, information theory, limits of science, materialism, Mayan culture, Origin, SETI, string theory, theoretical physics, viewpoint diversity How Consensus Can Blind Science Science and Culture November 4, 2016 Astronomy, Cosmology, Cultural Anthropology, Intelligent Design 9 Visiting a Mayan temple, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb had a revelation. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 17, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, creationism, critics, hype, John Horgan, multiverse theory, pacifism, peer-reviewed, pseudoscience, science journalism, Scientific American, simulation, skepticism, skeptics, straw man, string theory, tribal affiliation Two Kinds of Science “Skepticism” David Klinghoffer May 17, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 5 Science journalist John Horgan makes the great distinction between skepticism directed at "soft" versus "hard" targets. Read More ›
